July 4, 2007

Smith on motivation and fetishism
By Gerald Lang

I’ve been doing some thinking about Michael Smith’s argument against externalism about motivation. To remind you, externalists about motivation - henceforth, externalists - deny that there is any conceptual or internal connection between making a moral judgment and being motivated (to some extent) to act on it. Internalists about motivation - henceforth, internalists - assert that there is such an internal connection between judgment and motivation.

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Posted on July 4, 2007 at 12:16 pm in Metaethics, Gerald Lang's Posts | 6 Comments